Services for Students

At B&FC, we offer a great variety of services aimed at helping you reach your full potential. These are available to all students and include everything from careers advice and study support to specialist support across a whole range of areas.

Our experienced advisers do everything they can to make sure you succeed. Throughout your time here, they will support you to achieve your learning goals and develop the all-round skills needed to prepare for further study and employment.

Whether you know what you want to do or not, our experienced careers advisers will support you to plan a route to your dream career. They will help you identify suitable careers, advise you about relevant opportunities, support you in becoming work ready and guide you through the recruitment process.

Don’t let finances stand between you and your dream career. The B&FC Bonus covers a range of incentives to help you stretch your budget further. Low-cost loans (with nothing to pay upfront) are available for many courses and some courses are FREE. Studying your chosen course really is affordable.

Our employability coaches work to ensure all students have the best chance of success in the future. They provide help and support with aspects of study as well as with personal issues. They help you stay on track towards your goals so you can move on to further study and employment.

Broaden your horizons and develop valuable employment skills at the same time. Our exciting enrichment activities cover areas such as sport, the arts, enterprise and volunteering to give you the all-round skills needed to succeed in life and work.

With a cutting edge learning resource centre at every campus, you can access all the physical and online resources you need to support your studies. Our helpful learning advisers will show you how and where to find everything you need. They also provide one-to-one coaching in digital and research skills.

The Students’ Union (SU) represents your views on everything from equality to education. It runs clubs, societies and events, and offers the chance to become a student rep or an elected officer. The SU also provides automatic membership of the NUS, with access to great benefits and discounts.

Support and guidance is available to students with support needs who are making the move into and through further education, to higher education, employment and other positive destinations. We are committed to contributing to Blackpool and Lancashire’s SEND local offer.

A range of services are available to support students progressing from further to higher education, with specialist support available for students with disabilities. We can support you with the Disabled Students’ Allowance and with academic, study skills and personal development through our higher education learning mentors.

We are fully committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all students, staff and visitors. Students will be introduced to our ways of safeguarding and keeping everyone safe, including online safety, during induction.

Support and guidance is available to students dealing with personal or emotional concerns to help encourage positive feelings of wellbeing. We can offer short-term counselling and many other strategies along with signposting to other services.

Support sessions are available to help students with autism. Our team are highly qualified and experienced and we are The North West Autism Education Trust’s Regional Training Hub, supported by the Department for Education.